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Michael Bruno, MD,FACR

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Hi - I am Professor and Vice Chair for Quality & Safety and Chief of the Section of Emergency Radiology at the Penn State College of Medicine & Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. I am currently the Chair of the ACR Committee on Emergency Radiology for the GSER Commission and a member of the Outreach Committee of the Patient and Family Centered Care (PFCC) Commission, and was recently named a Councilor of the ACR, representing the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).

Over the past decade my academic and research focus has been in the area of quality improvement and patient safety in radiology, including efforts to increase adherence to evidence-based guidelines in the utilization of medical imaging, enhancing communication between radiologists and other physicians, and improving communication between radiologists and our patients. I formerly chaired the ABR Core-exam committee charged with writing quality & safety questions for that examination. Dr. Hani Abujudeh and I have co-authored / co-edited two textbooks, "Quality & Safety in Radiology" published by Oxford Univ. Press in 2012 and the upcoming "Radiology Noninterpretive Skills - The Requisites, due in early 2017. I am currently working on another book on the topic of radiologists' errors, also with Oxford Press, a project which is co-sponsored and endorsed by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). Prior to 2005, my primary research interest was in the area of functional and physiological imaging in rheumatoid arthritis.

My current research interests center around understanding the neuro-cognitive processes underlying radiologists' perceptual errors and the development and testing of various strategies to mitigate these errors. I am also involved in research on the use of clinical decision support to improve the evidence-based utilization of CT scanning for pulmonary embolism and also to optimize appropriate utilization of MRI of the lumbar spine in the Emergency Department setting. I am a site participant in a statewide multi-site ACRIN-CURE project directed toward improvement of communication of actionable findings on imaging, and am part of an interdisciplinary team working on quantitative predictive modeling of clinical workflow variations in order to optimize staffing efficiency in two sections of our department. I am also still involved in research on the use of Doppler ultrasound evaluation of patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, serving as a faculty mentor to a pediatric rheumatology research fellow here at Hershey.